Abraham Lincoln Building, Loan & Homestead Ass'n v. Walsh
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action of assumpsit. Appeal from the County Court of Cook County; the Hon. A. J. Clarity, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1905. Statement by the Court. This is an appeal from a judgment of the County Court upon a verdict of $600 rendered in an action of assumpsit in favor of Margaret Walsh, plaintiff, and against the Abraham Lincoln Building, Loan & Homestead Association, an Illinois corporation, defendant.
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Action of assumpsit. Appeal from the County Court of Cook County; the Hon. A. J. Clarity, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1905. Statement by the Court. This is an appeal from a judgment of the County Court upon a verdict of $600 rendered in an action of assumpsit in favor of Margaret Walsh, plaintiff, and against the Abraham Lincoln Building, Loan & Homestead Association, an Illinois corporation, defendant. The declaration was in the common, counts and the defendant pleaded the general issue. Plaintiff, appellee, was a member of the defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Presiding Justice Smith
delivered the opinion of the court.
It is contended by appellant that the verdict and judgment is not only contrary to the evidence, but is so grossly at variance with all the facts in the case as to prove that the jury were influenced in their decision by sympathy for the plaintiff or prejudice against the defendant, or perhaps both. And it is urged that the trial judge committed error in refusing to grant a new trial.
On the part of appellee it is urged that after the appellant association paid the money, Mrs. Walsh, the plaintiff, informed the assistant secretary,…
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